Pun-ctuation

A "pregnant pause" is a pause just before the punchline of a joke, usually intended to build suspense. This is often denoted with an ellipses, which confuses me because there are three periods

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👤︎ u/buvet
📅︎ Aug 02 2016
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My graphic design professor should have been a dad

Just a few minutes ago, my graphic design professor was demonstrating how to use flash professional to the class. He started to make a shape and says, "so I'm just going to grab the ellipse tool and make a circle. I'm not going to have a stroke, well at least I hope not." classic.

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👤︎ u/Xleader23
📅︎ Nov 14 2013
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